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Mathematics / Year 3 / Statistics and Probability / Chance

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Curriculum content descriptions

Conduct chance experiments, identify and describe possible outcomes and recognise variation in results (ACMSP067)

Elaborations
  • conducting repeated trials of chance experiments such as tossing a coin or drawing a ball from a bag and identifying the variations between trials
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
ScOT terms

Measures of spread,  Probability,  Observations (Data)

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